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JB Hunt

J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc.
In 1969, Johnnie Hunt founded J.B. Hunt Transport Services, a trucking company that has grown into the largest, publicly held truckload transportation company in North America (J.B. Hunt, History). J.B. Hunt does not resist change; it invests and uses technology to increase its bottom line. A key contributor to any transportation company’s bottom line is the efficient utilization of equipment assets. Qualcomm’s OmniTRACS allows J.B. Hunt to track the location of its 11,650 trucks. Terion's FleetView tracks the location of Hunt’s 11,000 trailers, whether or not they are tethered to a truck. Both systems allow J.B. Hunt to locate and dispatch its vehicle assets quickly and efficiently without ever leaving corporate headquarters.
Johnnie Bryant Hunt was born in 1927. He grew up working in the cotton fields. At the age of 12, Hunt left school and went to work in his uncle’s sawmill. “In the years that followed he picked cotton, harve...

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